Every week, HL7 Standards, hosts a #HITsm Tweet Chat and poses four questions “on current topics that are influencing healthcare technology, health IT, and the use of social media in healthcare.” It’s always a great discussion and also a great chance to meet a wide variety of people that are passionate about healthcare IT.
In case you missed it, or are curious about what went on this week, we’ve put together the list of topics with some of the best responses for each topic. There were some interesting topics this week, as well as some great responses. If you have any opinions on any of these topics, feel free to continue the discussion in the comments. This chats take place every Friday at 11AM CST. You’ll find members of Healthcare Scene regularly participating in the chat under some of the following Twitter accounts: @techguy, @ehrandhit, @hospitalEHR, and @smyrnagirl.
Topic One: Payers are adopting more member/patient engagement platforms. How would you design these systems?
Patients are social.Big Payors are batch-oriented companies.No wonder they are ranked dead last in terms of consumer experience.
#HITsm— Mike Jenkins PMP MBA (@technologychef) August 24, 2012
What if health insurance companies offered discounts for healthy behaviors that could be tracked through
#gamification? huh? huh?#HITsm— Melody Smith Jones (@MelSmithJones) August 24, 2012
@melsmithjones Also if they could develop good methods for offering you guidance too.#hitsm— Robert Green (@HealthcareNovel) August 24, 2012
Topic Two: Group Health discussed their “learning health system.” What strategic decisions must a health system make to learn?
T2: Flexibility. Must be able to adapt to new information, not just acknowledge it exists
#HITsm— Nanette Nuessle (@DrNanN) August 24, 2012
T2: Healthy systems must be open and willing to hear patient and physician feedback to learn and improve their service
#HITsm— Mallory Savoie (@MalloryKSavoie) August 24, 2012
T2: If you want any organization to learn, then collaboration needs to be key to culture
#HITsm— Melody Smith Jones (@MelSmithJones) August 24, 2012
In my opinion, it’s about connection, communication, collaboration, and respect on all levels
#HITsm— Mallory Savoie (@MalloryKSavoie) August 24, 2012
Topic Three: There’s a new noninvasive total cholesterol test using a digital camera. Could an iPhone replace your doctor some day?
#mhealth and#telehealth tools are great supplements but can’t replace the real thing in some cases#hitsm— Perficient Health IT (@Perficient_HC) August 24, 2012
@healthstandards Your iPhone won’t be your doctor, the network will be. iPhone just an endpoint.#hitsm— Leonard Kish (@leonardkish) August 24, 2012
T3: When I think about future of health, I think Star Trek & holographic lungs doc created while figuring out next solution
#hitsm— CLOUDHealth (@CLOUDHealth) August 24, 2012
T3: Responsible physicians will never entirely trust patient captured data, whether this is cholesterol, glucose, A1C.
#HITsm— Michael Planchart (@theEHRGuy) August 24, 2012
Topic Four: NYU Medical Center opened a wireless health research center. What should their first research project be?
T4: the neuroengineering and neuroscience I think would be interesting. We’ve actually brought it up a few times in my MBA program
#HITsm— Mallory Savoie (@MalloryKSavoie) August 24, 2012
I think that NYU should focus on rural health. I know that sounds odd for the Big Apple, but lots of rural surrounds NYC.
#HITsm— Melody Smith Jones (@MelSmithJones) August 24, 2012
T4: Crowdsourced interpretation of medical data could beat artificial intelligence.
#HITsm— Michael Planchart (@theEHRGuy) August 24, 2012
T4: Build on research at Dartmouth using wearable ID sensors.Will cut down on identity problems.
#HITsm— Joan(@inthenow22) August 24, 2012
Grab Bag
Why hospitals need experience to manage social media
#hcsm#HITsm bit.ly/MOvDs3— Nick van Terheyden (@drnic1) August 24, 2012
Here is an article about the Chilmark Research on payers and engagement platforms bit.ly/O11QZm
#HITsm— Melody Smith Jones (@MelSmithJones) August 24, 2012
For those not in previous chats, I will once again plug the book Everything is Miscellaneous. Heavily influenced CLOUD thinking
#HITsm— garyleethompson (@garyleethompson) August 24, 2012
Veggie-detecting laser helps doctors track your diet, cut through little, white lies wapo.st/NB1ZHT via WaPo
#Health#HITsm— Elin Silveous (@ElinSilveous) August 24, 2012